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    "id": 1319652,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1319652/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Busia County, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Catherine Omanyo",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I appreciate this opportunity to discuss or give my opinion on the President's Speech. Most of it was like throwing a mare’s nest on Kenyans, because we heard a lot of non-factual information. I have heard people’s praises, especially on fertilisers, but who was given the mandate to supply the fertiliser? He might have been given a very beautiful report after the fertiliser was supplied, but the truth is that real farmers are buying the fertiliser. If it was for the benefit of farmers, some of them, especially in Busia, did not even understand the procedure or who was handling the programme. If the bottom-up economic model must work in future, there are village elders, Nyumba Kumi administrators and chiefs who understand and know where the real farmers are. I remain optimistic, but we should not lie that very soon the poverty will be reduced or done away with. To continue poking the bubble, the nation is being over-taxed. Every so often, we wake up to a surprise of new taxes; dodgy or crafty means are being used. At the airport, Kenyans and visitors are in shock. It is staggering that it has taken too long for someone to take stern action to stop those dodgy means of taxing people. You cannot tax people until you see them bleed to death. A true leader will protect their people as opposed to leading them to graves. If that is the case, I do not want to be one of the people who are going to die. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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